And when it comes to paying more in water tap fees to ensure the state’s water supply, that’s backed by 70 percent of Democrats and 58 percent of Republicans
Among other poll highlights:

–On higher education, respondents were a bit split, with 40 percent saying public universities are among the best in the nation but 42 percent saying students don’t get a fair return for what they spend.

In addition, 46 percent said they want to re-regulate tuition but 48 percent said they want to keep de-regulation — with 18 percent simply saying it should be de-regulated, and 30 percent saying that should be coupled wtih help for low-income students to offset costs.

–Among health questions, 64 percent said today’s kids are much more liikely to be fat and out of shape than when the respondents were kids.

Many blamed parents not controlling what their children eat (31 percent); modern technology, such as TV and computers (24 percent); and fast food and a bad diet (17 percent).

–On the law requiring a sonogram before an abortion, there wasn’t a big division between men and women, pollsters said, but there was by party — 69 percent of Republicans favored it and 62 percent of Democrats opposed it (I asked for that party breakdown separately).

The Sept. 10-26 statewide telephone survey of registered voters drew 6,500 records and resulted in 1,175 completed interviews. The overall margin of error for the poll is plus or minus 2.83 percentage points. Some questions were asked of voter subsets.